WEATHERFORD IN RUSSIA: GOING FORWARD

All company operations in the former Soviet Union countries are managed through Weatherford FSU Region Team and today we are about 10,000 people in the Region with operations in Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Uzbekistan. In Russia we operate since 2002 and started with the standard services for Weatherford like Tubular Running Services, Drilling Rental Tools, Fishing and Re-Entry services, Engineered Chemistry for oil and gas sector based on the Weatherford’s daughter company – Clearwater which is also represented in Russia. It was our start. Today we can offer more than 21 different kinds of oilfield services to our clients, including the whole range of drilling and workover services. As far as the thru-tubing line is concerned, we started our first base within our Russia/CIS region in Aksai, Kazakhstan in 1999. In 2003 we opened the base in Aktau, which is our main base right now. Last year we made a decision to enter the Russian market with this kind of service and opened our first Russian base now in orenburg last July.

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